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Progress not Perfection
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Progress not Perfection

Progress not PerfectionI’m sure you’ve heard me say things before. We should focus on progress not perfection. The problem with striving for Perfect is that it keeps us in a box. It keeps us from stepping out of our comfort zone and holds us in a pattern of living in the “when, then?” mindset. For example, “When I am 10 pounds thinner, then I will be happy.”  “When I make x pounds, then I will be successful.” You get the idea. It tells us that we’re not good enough yet, not strong enough yet, not beautiful enough yet…

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Why everyone needs a coach in life…

Why everyone needs a coach in life…Last weekend I did a competition. It wasn’t very good. And after sulking a bit, I text my coach to update him. The conversation went like this:Me:  Disappointing day, not sure what’s going on…  [plus blah blah blah a million possible reason why I think I might have performed poorly]

There’s never a normal week
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There’s never a normal week

There’s never a normal weekThere’s one thing I’m becoming super clear on. There is never a normal week. There is never a straightforward stretch of time. In the 4 months so far of 2019, my training has been disrupted by a box jump incident, a car crash, Easter holidays and a large house project. Throughout these months I’ve been thinking… as soon as we get over this, it’ll get better. But it never does. There is never a ‘normal’ week. 

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The Importance of De-loading

A few weeks ago I told you about my sore shins back in January, and how frustrated I was that I couldn’t train.Eventually I got back to jumping, and it was pretty good.The best bit was some 60m sprints In which I ran a whopping 0.3s faster than my best last year. In 60m, this is significant. It got me thinking about what had generated this leap…

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How to Get Out of a Slump

As you may have heard at the time, I got hurt In January. A moment of distraction that turned into a horrible graze and big bump to my shins…It really angered me because I knew it would upset my training week. So I went home, festering in my bad mood. Ate a tonne of Doritos, and the kids’ chocolate. The next day, I was equally grumpy. Especially when I knocked it again.